Culture

Sami culture is often demonstrated with colourful costumes, beautiful handicrafts and impressive reindeer. But our culture contains so much more, it is alive in every Sami, or as the Sami multi-artist Nils-Aslak Valkeapää said, “My home is in my heart”.

For some of us, the culture is working with reindeer, hunting, enjoying nature and experiencing the feeling of freedom. For others, it is the traditional foods, speaking Sami or simply sharing a feeling of solidarity with other Sami. The foundation of our culture is our traditional lifestyle of living off of that which nature gives us, without taxing the common natural resources